1986: Safe and Legal Abortion Kills Texas Woman

The survivors of Dorothy Bryant filed suit against Dr. Robert Prince (pictured) in her death. The suit says that Prince failed to perform ...

Bizarre Circumstances in 1915

Anna Johnson was found dead with a bullet hole in her head on May 26, 1915, in the Chicago home of Dr. Eva Shaver. Shaver told police that ...

Unusual Abortion: Chicago, 1912

On May 24, 1912, 24-year-old Margaret Dwyer died at Englewood Union Hospital in Chicago, the day after an abortion perpetrated by Paulina...

Docters' Work Pre and Post Roe

On May 10, 1929, 24-year-old homemaker Elizabeth Palumbo submitted to an abortion, evidently performed by Dr. Amante (or Amenti) Rongetti....

Friends Don't Help Freinds Arrange Abortions

According to her husband, Baptist, 26-year-old homemaker Mary Jane Douds had not been well for four years. When he'd come home from w...

Three Criminal Deaths

On May 20, 1870, Mrs Matilda Henningsen , aka Matilda Hunt, died at No. 182 East Seventh Street in Brooklyn. Mr. A. A. Wolff , from Denmark...

From 1858 to 1992, Death Marches On

On May 19, 1858, Mrs. Amelia Weber died at the home of Dr. Charles Cobel in Brooklyn. "[F]rom the privacy of the burial and other myst...

Unknown Perp in 1925, a Doctor's Work in 1958

I know little of the May 18, 1925 death of Della Davis , a 25-year-old Black woman. Della died in Chicago from an illegal abortion performe...

Illegal and Legal and All Just as Dead

Ad for Plenz's abortion business On May 17, 1904, Miss Margaret McCarthy died in Chicago's Mary Thompson Hospital from an illegal ...

Did Dr. Albers Kill Lucile Bersworth?

Dr. Anna Albers On May 16, 1916, 25-year-old Lucile Bersworth died at the Chicago office of Dr. Anna Albers (pictured) from complications ...

Safe and Legal in 1972

" Roxanne " was 17 years old when she decided to take advantage of New York's new abortion law , and traveled there from Michi...

Deadly Abortions Continue After Legalization

On May 12, 1919, 38-year-old homemaker Susie Airey died at her Chicago home from an abortion perpetrated by Martha Richter, whose profess...

One Illegal Abortion and Extensive Legal Quackery

On May 8, 1928, 27-year-old Margaret Barnts died from a criminal abortion perpetrated by Pauline Zickerman or Nickelman. (The name is give...

Did Mom Let Doc off the Hook?

On May 7, 1905, Mrs. Hannah Calhoun died in Peoria, Illinois, from fever and blood poisoning attributed to an abortion. At first, Dr. J. W....

Three Criminal Deaths

Rosa Device was taken to Chambers Street Hospital in New York on Friday night, May 3, 1878. She was "in a hopeless condition" wh...

Fatal Abortions Across Over a Century

The evening of Sunday, May 4, 1865, Mrs. Mary Cressin went to the Eleventh Precinct station house and reported a suspicious death  in the ...

Safe and Legal in 1985

The survivors of 29-year-old Kathleen Gilbert sued David Turow and Women's Aid Clinic when she bled to death after her safe and lega...

"Unite Against the War on Women" (profanity alert)

Zombie has graciously shared some of the pictures set to go up on Ringo's Blog later today. I figured I'd respond to a few. I'l...

Two Deaths from the Pre Roe Era

I have scant information on the May 1, 1925 abortion death of 26-year-old Mary Sayers . She died at a Chicago residence from a criminal abor...